JAVAScript: StringTokenizer Function

String.prototype.tokenize = tokenize;

function tokenize()
{
var input = "";
var separator = " ";
var trim = "";
var ignoreEmptyTokens = true;

try {
String(this.toLowerCase());
}
catch(e) {
window.alert("Tokenizer Usage: string myTokens[] = myString.tokenize(string separator, string trim, boolean ignoreEmptyTokens);");
return;
}

if(typeof(this) != "undefined")
{
input = String(this);
}

if(typeof(tokenize.arguments[0]) != "undefined")
{
separator = String(tokenize.arguments[0]);
}

if(typeof(tokenize.arguments[1]) != "undefined")
{
trim = String(tokenize.arguments[1]);
}

if(typeof(tokenize.arguments[2]) != "undefined")
{
if(!tokenize.arguments[2])
ignoreEmptyTokens = false;
}

var array = input.split(separator);

if(trim)
for(var i=0; i
{
while(array[i].slice(0, trim.length) == trim)
array[i] = array[i].slice(trim.length);
while(array[i].slice(array[i].length-trim.length) == trim)
array[i] = array[i].slice(0, array[i].length-trim.length);
}

var token = new Array();
if(ignoreEmptyTokens)
{
for(var i=0; i
if(array[i] != "")
token.push(array[i]);
}
else
{
token = array;
}

return token;
}
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